Technical Problems concerning
The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll
If this happens, email your vote to prededitors@att.net. This is our editor's personal email address. He will hold your vote until the end of the poll and assure that it is counted.
If our main voting page is too large for your computer to handle, try using the smaller categorized pages listed below the Vote button on this page.
We do know now that our main voting page will crash when accessed with Netscape Communicator 4.61.
If this happens, email your votes to our editor. He will hold your votes until the end of the poll and assure that those are counted. Be sure to mention whether any of your votes were accepted by our voting form. If so, please do not submit that person's votes in the email to the editor.
Regardless of which entry you choose, your vote will be counted. We will match up the various entries so that all votes are properly and accurately counted. We recognize that some votes have been entered incorrectly, but to correct all the small errors as they occur would force us to interrupt the voting too often.
Go ahead and enter the nominee in the correct category if not listed already. When you do, that will automatically register as your vote in addition to giving everyone after you the correct voting entry to use. We will match up the various entries so that all votes are properly and accurately counted. We recognize that some votes have been entered incorrectly, but to correct all the small errors as they occur is impractical.
Go ahead and enter the nominee in the correct category. When you do, that will automatically register as your vote in addition to giving everyone after you the correct voting entry to use.
Go ahead and enter the nominee in the correct category to the best of your knowledge. We'll figure it out somehow. When you do, that will automatically register as your vote in addition to giving everyone after you the correct voting entry to use. Often, another voter seeing the incomplete entry will notify us of the missing information. We'll then keep that on file.
Sometimes the number of votes being handled by the program causes a delay. One entry in 1999 took 3 days to show up. So far, we're unaware of any votes being lost. If you feel your vote was lost, contact our editor at the above email address.
Our experience with this poll is that voters tend to learn of the poll at the sites they frequent. Consequently, they tend to show up in groups shortly after a notice is posted on that other site that the poll is underway. We don't consider that cheating.
There have been some crude attempts, but those were easily spotted and dealt with. Additionally, the software is geared toward spotting such attempts. However, we'll not discuss what measures the software takes for obvious reasons.
You'll be whisked to our fully automated voting form.
If it's too big for your computer,
use the links below to load single categories only.
Vote in one or all categories.